[Xapian-discuss] Indexing more than 15 billion documents

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 01:34:52PM -0400, Daniel Enright wrote:
> Sorry to follow up on an old thread, but I am wondering if there has
> been any work done on, or interest in, increasing the maximum document
> id beyond a 32bit limit?

Neither.

If you change types like Xapian::doccount to be 64 bit, it might just
work - if not, it shouldn't be much work to patch up the places which
make 32 bit assumptions.  The low level encodings are templated so will
handle any size type.

Cheers,
    Olly